1. Escola Fontes Pereira de Melo INTERNET Américo Duarte – Turma TEL Cultura Língua e Comunicação Estrangeira - Inglês

2. What’s Internet? The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP). It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, and other technologies.

3. TheAdvantagesof Internet Throughtthe Internet wecan: Communicatewithpeoplethat are farawayfromus; Searchinformationabouteverything. Itisalsouseful for e-learning, marketing andshopping.

4. TheDisadvantages of Internet The viruses that can appear in our computers; It can lead people to loneliness or to meet people that are not truthful; It can lead young people to spend a lot of time in front of the computer.

5. INTERNET – THE BEGINNING 70’s ARPA developed a network of computers that would allow people to communicate even when they were far away from each other; It started with four poles and with the protocol TCP/IP.

6. 80’s The Internet developed and at first, Universities were interested in it and then, the companies understood its commercial value; People put information that was hard to find, so the WWW(World Wide Web) was created to find the information in an easy way; A new protocole appeared “HTTP” and appeared the URL.

7. Now … millionsofusers are usingit to findinformation, to play, to work, to do allsortofdifferentthings.

8. INTERNET is a helpful network. It helps me a lot concerning work, culture, entertainment, shopping, marketing, photography, images, etc. Internet reaches not only our planet but the whole Universe!!!